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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Get The Word Out By Linking to Others

Getting other websites to link to yours is crucial when optimizing your site for the search engines and trying to drive traffic to your site. Linking to others is important too.

Getting the Word Out

Linking to other websites is a good strategy when you’re trying to get the word out about your website. Here’s an example:

I add a link to another website on my site
I click on the link and visit the site
My visit is recorded in their web log
They check their web statistics and find out I just visited
The chances are very high they will check out (visit) my website out of curiosity.

This curiosity could lead to an increase in web traffic, a link back to your website, future linking partnerships, etc.

So when you’re adding a link to someone else’s website, don’t forget to click on that very link to record your visit to their website. They may return the favor.

Posted by: Michael Swartz at 3:06 pm

Comments: None | Filed under: SEO

Thursday, July 13, 2006
What is Your Homepage?

Hello.

I’ve been gone awhile. I have a good excuse; I was on vacation in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan celebrating my birthday and my fiancé’s father’s 60 birthday. What a blast.

Anyhoo…

On a popular online forum, I asked the question “What is your homepage?”

I was curious…

What is your browser’s homepage?

Mine is Threadwatch.

I ask because I was thinking about changing it.

Thanks.

Most of the people who responded said Google was their homepage of choice. This revelation is very intriguing from an SEO perspective.

Search Statistics

63% of internet user’s daily activities are performing searches (2nd to email which is 77%). In March of 2006, 5.9 billion searches were performed. 49% of those searches were on Google.

These stats coincide with the answers I received from my forum post. Most users, when using the internet, use it to search.

It’s very important to recognize these facts. People just don’t go to websites they know or like. Their first choice is to search for what they want, not go to it directly.

So I ask…What is your homepage?

Posted by: Michael Swartz at 11:23 am

Comments: None | Filed under: SEO